Author: Navino Evans

This post is a follow up to the session I hosted at WikidataCon 2017 along with Stuart Prior from WikimediaUK (standing in for John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO) Data partnerships with reputable third parties are really important for the future of Wikidata. If we get this right it will alleviate a lot of the manual work needed keeping […]

During the next few months we’re rolling out some very cool new features and options and for HistropediaJS, our JavaScript library for creating interactive timelines. This includes some impressive looking animations and several key improvements related to timeline scrolling. Here’s an overview of what’s coming: Smoother and easier timeline scrolling If we have done our job right you may not even notice […]

Explore the history of science with a timeline showing the life spans of the greatest scientists of all time. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher, responsible for some of the most revolutionary developments in the history of science. Building upon the work of Nicholas Copernicus before him, he laid down the foundations that Isaac Newton needed for formulating his famous three laws of motion and theory of […]

This timeline shows the chronology of publication of some of the most important works in the field of mathematics from all over the world. Timeline: Publications in mathematics Time Range: 1600 BC to present day Category: Science and Mathematics No of Events: 51 The timeline starts at the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus published in Ancient Egypt circa 1650 BC and stretches up to the modern […]

Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission we have a timeline of the History of the Apollo Program. The Apollo program was the third human space flight program carried out by NASA, running from 1961 to 1975. After a series of unmanned mission from 1961 to 1967, Apollo 1 was set to be the first manned mission of […]

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